Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-04-03

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a home supply By hanging
mp the cabbage, a. we did this. in a
dark dry room OF course, it takes a
great deal Of room. and might be too
expensive to provide especially for this
use; but our hop houses may be util-
lied for this purpose with profit.
The day we plOwed our first furrOw
for the year in the hop yard there came
two young men into my field carrying
what they said was a novelty har-
ness. What they were carrying did
not look much like a harness, though
certainly there was a novelty in its
What is it good for, boys2" / said f.
seeing that one of them was Johnny
Fosset, whom ! had known since he
was knee high TO a duck.
We will show YOU if Won viii I'M
hitch that team and put this on them, :"
was the confident answer.
Now have horror Of patent-right
peddlers, book agents and the like, en-
gendered and intensified by the numer-
Gus solicitations incident 10 the location
where | live but | thought in this case
10 say " Yes, give it a trial. and
though IN great hurry, of went our
harness aud on went the novelty.
protest vet this does not look like
8 harness at all. Imagine piece of
iron, shaped something ike an 0x-yoke
bottom side up, the curved ends being
large enough to loosely fit the bodies
Of the horses; this suspended imme-
-iiately behind the fore legs. under the
Of hss 70. he
names by a short iron trace, say about
Is inches long, and held in place by
light cloth buck band, a log chain
hitched 20 the center and back 10 the
pillow, and you have it all.
Fox and Prince stepped just little
high as they moved off, a. If they
iidn't exactly understand IT. but be-
.ore the first furrow was run they knew
40 difference. They had not gone ten
.eet before my mind was made up that
here was merit In it. Why, we can
use our horse teams right IN the brush.
ogging; around, close up to or over
.tumps; close up 10 fruit trees, in be
.Ween hop rows with double teams in
act. anywhere, a there are no pro
Getting singletrees, no dOubletrees. and
hen, % unhitch, you have only 10
irop the log chain, just the same as
with oxen.
This ought to 90 into general use for
certain parts Of our farm work, and
will. II pat within reasonable bounds
a. 20 price. but | do not believe il is
good for everything, as claimed. For
wagons feel sure not; then for pillow
ng three horses abreast or single il IL
For p,uwIng hops with
a double team IL is invaluable, and that
Il how we ought 90 do all our plowing,
as | csn attest by my experience and
-ast in having animals oyerworked
blowing single, or else 81 let up and
pIow shaliow I did not iet this
thing as | thoughtlessly called it,
60 ont Of the field, bat bought it and
put IL % service AZ once.
A family near Puyallup wanted a
girl a. do homework Ii was re-
-pertable place These people were
doing their uwn work, and expected TO
continue - help. The spring work
was coming on more hands employed
some milk 20 take care offence
more help needed in the house.
p
nut no response came. they sent far
and near, and yet no success. Finally
a young lady twho had need 10 be
somethiugl out OF employ
ment was found, who was willing to
accept the place. bat her " mother OBJ
jected I" vas afraid 1t would make
her sick :" thought she had best take
: school
The fact is that the mother was act
ing undera mistaken. tender motherly
feeling 20 screen her girl from the
rougher duties Of life forgetting that
her DAYS are numbered; that the time
would come when her girl would be
thrown upon her own resources, and
having grown up like a tender vine IN
the shade, would be untitled for the
stern duties of life We often pirate
about wIr girls not being like the
girls used % be, when too often the
fault does not lie with them 50 much
as with the parent. The idea >u often
prevailing that huusewurk is degrad-
ing that to DO cooking one is necessa-
riiy looked down upou-ls all false
pride Cooking Is an art, or, more
properly speaking, a science that Is 50
necessary la the welfare of the human
race that 10 ouEht 60 stand A. profes-
sion 90 be honoresi and respected, That
ID is not always So held results either
from the existence Vt quarkeTy in the
cook or shoddy aristocracy ON the other
part. To make cooks plentiful We
should make the vocation respected
fu he respected. it must be mastered
I SAY. bv all means let us have more
cooks. even il we have to introduce a
new department INTO oar public
- hpol> I have always contende,i
that work should accompany Sigdy
thar ehoaliuE should hc worked Jn
SO 81 speak, and What better apPllga-
ton can be made oi this principle than
thar cur girls should learn % COOK as
well as spell
When on my last trip East. a wear
arm. { went Ca country chureh IA the
rural district where ! had lived when
Young. There Is something In 1hs
cordial air OF country church people
chat = a relief Inc contrast % that tos
often seen Ia the city There was Ia,
same old.umc familiarity. the same
ala-ume gossip. father THIS or tathsl
thst one or mother su,G AMI such az
one NJ fear ~ committing an san
propFiefy by "a cordial shake at TIA
hand 20 s. 4ulgt httje chat ia ih'
ghuuh while waiting for the prsarhe
o. Fome ear ihr baur o. service Co ~
rive. Then aAru the time did arrive
an Weug 60 their seats. the women ol
ans sl5e the shu-.a. she men on tn
other BIKE >rhaal children IS hen Ga
ba{l rius>. $50 latent during the ser
wires iu tnc5y DEVOTION hut tu break u
5nga lsstlc groups alisFNaui and hinge
iu SssaIal intercourse and reluctant g
depart
AZ shanee~ 5n our methods 80 maH
usr ef I1te ars uat tog tke better, by "a
means. and ytg tbe Narid j. bette
thsu Is vas tvo Thousand eg even utt
wears aeys. faU aeit remember RI
nusr wheu 80 WAS tauattIi sheJhs
one cuuld keep h.. harvest hauEi
Without furnishing whisky, when th
Ias-roling Na> invariably 4ocamHs
fy she IuE. Nhra the cauntry a4at
sas a}saast svTtA8u 90 >eHsi -sssz1e pe
.ass homie taa.ttey lu those daN
~,hasf children were 8rutt@i lis
sixty. sua Il ,Ass got a 8, baking